Do you think if I made a distinction between pre-asexual history (evidence of ace people/communities existing, that completely predate the modern community) and proto-asexual history (communities who may not have used the word ace but are more or less historically contiguous with the modern ace community) would anyone have any idea what I was talking about?

"In one notable case in 1987, a conviction under the section was reversed on appeal by the Supreme Court because the court ruled that "a party" was not created when a police officer entered a room in a gay bathhouse because the two men in the room jumped apart when he switched on the light."

"Section 20A of the Immorality Act, 1957, commonly known as the "men at a party" clause, was a South African law that criminalised all sexual acts between men that occurred in the presence of a third person."

leaving aside the obvious homophobia, what the hell was happening in south africa that meant they needed a second party gay law in addition to their preexisting one against sodomy????

"it" being TextEdit. I've got copies of all of the code in an actual code editor already so I don't particularly care, but I'm tempted to find out what'd happen if I tried to get the document to unformat itself anyway

Like, my intention when talking about making ace history accessible to the community is much more about collaboratively building a shared historical consensus within the community than it is on like, writing a Historical Work

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